Dilemmas about truth and friendship, sentence 8
Lying to protect a friend who did wrong usually lets someone else take the blame and stops the friend from putting things right.
Who acts: Lying, someone, friend · What happens: lie, protect, let, take, stop, put · To what, where: friend, someone, blame, things
This is a sentence of the lesson «Dilemmas about truth and friendship» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lying, someone, friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 lets | csubj |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 protect | mark |
| 3 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Lying | xcomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 friend | det |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 protect | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 wrong | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wrong | aux |
| 8 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 friend | acl:relcl |
| 9 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 8 wrong | advmod |
| 10 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 lets | obj |
| 12 | else | else | ADV | _ | 11 someone | advmod |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 lets | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 blame | det |
| 15 | blame | blame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stops | cc |
| 17 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 lets | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 friend | det |
| 19 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stops | obj |
| 20 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 21 putting | mark |
| 21 | putting | put | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 friend | acl |
| 22 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 putting | obj |
| 23 | right | right | ADV | _ | 21 putting | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lets | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | protect | to-infinitive | a friend | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Beneficiary | |||||
| 3 | let | present | Lying | someone | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | infinitive | someone not said here | the blame | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blame=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stop | present | Lying not said here | the friend | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality friend=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | put | gerund | the friend not said here | things | right property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thing=Goal |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:religion-ethics:041-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship.lesson:8.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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